My Comedy Fantasy

My Comedy Fantasy

If It Feels Wrong It's Probably Wrong

How to start learning to trust your gut

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Madalyn Baldanzi
Mar 04, 2026
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Two weeks ago I wrote about the imagination trap, wherein experienced writers forget that they can fix problems by changing…literally anything!

There’s a reverse corollary to this. It’s something that experienced writers know, and new writers have to learn.

You have to know when you have a problem in the first place.

That’s harder than it sounds.

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